Do the red flags go up on this Seated Liberty Half?

dont buy it

 

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not one that i can see.. theres alot of people that get ripped off every year because of these fakes.

 

It screams FAKE to me. The denticles are too strong for the degree of circulation wear is the tip off for me.

 

I was not convinced that it's a fake until the absence of tail feathers was noted; Good catch, Timewarp!
Otherwise it resembled a circulated coin which had been cleaned and the details thereby muddied and broadened further. The tone could possibly be put down to careless storage, subsequent to all of the other insults previously suffered, but it's so uniform. The lack of circulation marks in the open fields is also peculiar.
Is a Seated Half of this date and mint a premium date to acquire? Would a fake coin be made in a press with engraved dies after a LIDAR scan of an original, or are they cast in a mould from a copied original?

 

The deep mark in the top of the shield is probably in the host coin, and is probably found on lots of examples.

 

A final note on this auction: It ended with 13 bids, the highest being $355.

 

As soon as I saw the obverse, I didn't need to see anymore, as >

Later, when I caught up on the thread, I saw this >

Good catch @Timewarp!

Then to see this>

With those two things, whoever bid $335 (no less $1), is a fool, and as harsh as it sounds, deserves to have lost his $335. If you can't take 5 minutes to even slightly research a coin you're interested in, and you get taken, then it's on you. Damn fools. Both the seller and the buyer really tick me off on this.

 

As the quote attributed to PT Barnum clearly states, "There's a sucker born every minute!!!"